Patcher already running.

I am truly desperate. For 3 days I have been trying to fix what seems to be an external problem. Two of my free to play online games include Crossfire don't open and don't display correctly. When I TRY to open Crossfire, NOTHING happens, and if I try to open it again it says: "Patcher already running". I TRIED ending the task from the task manager, but it won't let me. (Same with the other game which is Wizard101 btw). I tried restarting my pc couple of times throughout the tries but still NOTHING. I upgraded and updated my PC, and the DRIVERS and the CARD DRIVERS and still NOTHING. I tried running as ADMINISTRATOR and also tried TROUBLESHOOTING, still nothing. My PC is pretty powerful and only a year old. I was playing Crossfire for as long as I had this laptop and from 2011 that I started playing had no issues like this whatsoever, on any other PCs.
I also trying disabling my firewall, but nothing. I tried contacting graphic card supports, which made me run the program on high performance but still nothing.

I tried RE-INSTALLING the whole game twice and nothing.
I tried resetting my personal WIFI source, I tried resetting my modem, but nothing.


The fact that two of my games suddenly don't open makes me think that this is an EXTERNAL issue. If ANYONE could help me I would appreciate it very very much. Please don't ask me to try any of the things I already listed, EXCEPT if you believe I have done it wrong. I also tried sending a support ticket, but I got a copy pasted answer that didn't lead me to fixing my problem.
The issue has been going for 3-4 days now, and after endless tries I don't know what else to do.:(